BOCA TEEN ARRESTED

BOCA RATON -- A teen-ager was arrested on Friday for luring a 9-year-old girl into some woods and trying to assault her last week, police said.

Patrick Stribling, 18, of Boca Raton, was charged with lewd assault and false imprisonment. He was being held in Palm Beach County Jail on $3,000 bail on Saturday, jail officials said.

Stribling allegedly enticed the girl, also of Boca Raton, into a wooded area near South Beach Park, 400 Ocean Boulevard, by asking her to help him fix his bicycle. He then forced her to the ground and tried to remove her clothes, police said.